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Mount Augustus. Mount Augustus is located roughly 1,000 km north of Perth, in the Mount Augustus National Park in Western Australia. The name is also given to the neighbouring pastoral lease, Mount Augustus Station. The local Wadjari people call it Burringurrah, after a Dreamtime figure, a young boy who was speared and turned into a rock. [1]
Mount Augustus National Park is located 852 km north of Perth, 490 km by road east of Carnarvon and 390 km northwest of Meekatharra, in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. Mount Augustus itself, the feature around which the national park is based, is known as Burringurrah to the local Wadjari Aboriginal people.
Burringurrah (also referred to as Mt Augustus) is a medium-sized Aboriginal community, located in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Upper Gascoyne. In the 2011 census, Burringurrah had a total population of 117, including 102 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. [1]
Mount Augustus Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in Western Australia. It is situated about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south west of Paraburdoo and 300 kilometres (186 mi) north west of Meekatharra in the Gascoyne region.
Mount Augusta, also designated Boundary Peak 183, [2] is a high peak in the US state of Alaska and the Canadian territory of Yukon. It lies about 25 km (16 mi) south of Mount Logan and 25 km east of Mount Saint Elias , respectively the first and second highest mountains in Canada.
Mount Augustus may refer to: Mount Augustus, Western Australia; Mount Augustus National Park, Western Australia; Mount Augustus, New Zealand This page was last edited ...
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Powelliphanta augusta or the Mount Augustus snail, previously provisionally known as Powelliphanta "Augustus", is a species of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.